Health Care Assistant

2 weeks ago


Thirsk, United Kingdom Saint Michaels Hospice Full time

Health Care Assistant Job Description Job Purpose To be an effective member our clinical team to ensure the provision of high-level care (including palliative, end of life, complex care and social) within a multi-disciplinary approach across all North Yorkshire Hospice Care services. Key Tasks all services 1. To assist patients and clients with their activities of daily living, reimagining the care and support they need to live their lives with dignity and compassion, providing high quality and specialist palliative, end of life, complex care or social care. 2.

To participate in agreed programmes of care ensuring that all care given is clearly and accurately documented in line with standards and seeking support from senior staff as necessary. 3. To engage with and support all client and patients carers, loved ones, relatives and friends, in a courteous and friendly manner, providing additional support as required. 4.

To follow all infection prevention and control policies, procedures and guidelines. 5. To follow North Yorkshire Hospice Care procedures in caring for patients after death and providing support to family and carers as necessary. 6.

To support new members of the team accorss the organisation in their orientation process. 7. To communicate with external professionals, members of the team, clients, patients and carers clearly and effectively, seeking help as needed. 8.

To work closely with the Multi-disciplinary Team and volunteers, promoting supportive and collaborative working relationships. 9. To follow North Yorkshire Hospice Care policies and practice in taking care of patients property and valuables. 10.

To provide any clinical skills such as medication administration, glucose montioring and any other skills, that are within the operating perameters of the service, that are required within the patients and clients care or care plans and within your trained competencies. 11. To follow moving and handling policies, procedures and training to support the independence and dignity of our patients and clients. 12.

To maintain a safe working environment at all times, making the best and most economic use of resources, and equipment. 13. To work in line with all systems requirements, working with the Hospice Services Team where needed, based on location and service to ensure timely, effective and accurate documentation of care provided and to ensure effective communication of needs between different clinical professionals, shifts or otherwise as required to support patient and client care. 14.

To ensure that all aspects of confidentiality and data protection are maintained in line with North Yorkshire Hospice Care policies and the principles of information governance. 15. To embed the values of the organisation into your working practices evidencing this regularly and ensuring this remains a priority, positively representing the organisation at all times. Key Tasks place based services 1.

When not allocated to a particular team during a shift, to provide support to each team as necessary supporting patient care and at lunch time taking part in support to patients with meals and feeding patients as necessary. 2. To maintain high standards of comfort and hygiene and meet the needs of patients work with the Housekeeping and Catering teams in dealing with tasks such as laundry, preparing refreshments and serving meals. 3.

To deliver high standards of comfort and care meeting the needs of our patients and working alongside our wider MDT, including the housekeeping team to ensure this. To undertake all duties in accordance with the law, hospice philosophy, recognised professional guidelines and the hospice commitment to equality of opportunity and collective responsibility. The above tasks are indicative of the role to be carried out; they may change from time to time in collaboration with the post holder and in line with service need.



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